Born in Toyama in 1977. After graduating from BA in Photography at Nihon University College of Art in 2003, his photography work IN PORTRAITS won Special Jury Prize in Esquire Digital Photo Award 2006. In 2007, he opened Otto Mainzheim Gallery in Tokyo. His showcases include solo photography exhibition "Oedipus Tyrannus" (Therme Gallery, Tokyo, 2008), group exhibitions "Pèlerinage＋prière" (Gallery LU, Nanto, France) and "The Definition of Self (Directed by Masahiko Sato)" (21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo, 2010). In 2011, one of his film works NIGHT LESS, a road movie only made of images taken from Google Street View, won Excellence Prize in Art Division at 14th Japan Media Arts Festival and screened at Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (Japan), The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany), the WRO Media Art Biennale 2011 (Poland), the French Embassy, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya (Japan), and etc. His latest work is a series of performance titled WUNDER KAMMER which represents the visual perception in a "room" showed at Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama: Creator-in-Residence.
He has been back to university and finished MA in School of Film and New Media at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2010. He is currently studying PhD at the same university.